Central IL Regional/Bloomington-Normal Airport Map Print (BMI)

BMI KBMI Bloomington/Normal, Illinois

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Add the digital file + $10 A JPEG of your BMI artwork at 300 dpi, matched to your selected physical print size. Print a copy for your own space or use it as wallpaper. Save it within 30 days of receiving the email link; the file is yours to keep for personal use.

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Museum-quality, 330 gsm cotton paper with pigment inks for rich color and fine detail. Ready for your own frame.
Bloomington/Normal's runways and taxiways, composed as art for anyone who has spent time at the field.
Seven colorways to suit the room. A considered gift for pilots, crew, and frequent flyers.

Description

A runway diagram map print of Central IL Regional/Bloomington-Normal Airport (BMI), made from the airport's own layout for the place it holds in your life. Choose your colorway and your format: a fine art giclée print on cotton paper, a framed fine art print, a glossy metal print or a digital download.

Your fine art print is made to order with pigment inks on heavyweight, 100% cotton Hot Press paper, a 330 gsm sheet with a high color gamut and deep black density. The acid-free, archival-grade paper has a smooth matte surface. Supplied unframed, ready for your own frame.

Shipping and Returns

Physical prints are made to order in 2 to 3 business days; shipping time is added on top and varies by your location and the method you choose. Standard shipping is free across the US. Orders containing only paper prints ship flat, though paper may retain a slight curl; orders with framed or metal pieces ship in separate boxes. Digital downloads are delivered by email, so there is nothing to ship.

Physical products have a 30-day money-back guarantee. Contact us within 30 days of delivery to request a refund; we may require a return before issuing it.

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Materials

Fine Art Print: pigment giclée printing on heavyweight 330 gsm (17 mil), 100% cotton Hot Press paper, on regularly calibrated giclée printers. The paper is acid-free and archival-grade, with a smooth matte surface and the high color gamut and black density that let a dark ground and fine linework keep their depth. Supplied unframed, with no added white margin, ready for your own frame.

Dimensions

Fine Art Print: 8 x 10, 16 x 20, and 24 x 30 inches.

Made like something you keep.

The field itself

This is Bloomington/Normal's own layout, the way its runways run and the taxiways thread between them, composed into a print you will want to look at every day. Not a stock template with a new name on it.

Museum-quality cotton paper

Heavyweight 330 gsm, 100% cotton Hot Press paper, acid-free and archival-grade. Its high color gamut and black density give the runways real depth, and pigment inks keep the fine detail crisp on a smooth matte surface.

Solid wood framing or glossy metal

Frame it in 1.25 inch solid wood, black, white or natural oak, with the white beveled mat, optical-grade clear acrylic and hanging wire included. Or choose glossy metal: dye sublimation into aluminum, floated about 3/4 inch off the wall on a hidden mount.

Central IL Regional/Bloomington-Normal

BMI · Bloomington/Normal, Illinois

40.4771° N · 88.9159° W
Field elevation 871 ft

Identifier

BMI

ICAO code

KBMI

Field elevation

871ft

Runways

Magnetic variation

3°W

Runways

02/208,000 × 150 ft

11/296,525 × 150 ft

Composed from published airport information and available field depictions as original wall art. Learn how AirportPrints maps take shape.

Central IL Regional/Bloomington-Normal Airport Runway Diagram Print

Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal works two runways, and the print is organized around the longer one: 2/20 at 8,000 by 150 feet, standing almost upright in the frame with the 20 end at the top and the 2 end at the bottom. Runway 11/29 is 6,525 by 150 feet, and it comes in from the upper left on a shallow downward slope, crossing 2/20 high above the midpoint and stopping just past it. That places the intersection well up in the composition, so the long lower reach of 2/20 carries the frame on its own with only its parallel taxiway and a ladder of connectors beside it. Field elevation is 871 feet and magnetic variation is 3W.

Flying in this community started at a different field. In 1927 farmer Herman Will opened a 70-plus-acre tract in rural Normal Township, bordered on the west by the newly paved Illinois 2 and on the east by the Illinois Central Railroad. The dedication on May 30, 1928 drew some 10,000 area residents for an afternoon of stunts and jumps reported by The Pantagraph, and a few weeks later the U.S. Department of Commerce added the Normal field to its list of officially recognized airports. Century Air Lines put Bloomington on its Chicago to St. Louis route in 1931, but the wet winter that followed left the ground too soft for the carrier's Stinson tri-motors. Nothing of that first field survives, and a historic marker near the north end of Constitution Trail stands where it was.

The airport in this diagram dates to mid-December 1933, when local officials settled on a 164-acre site east of Bloomington along Illinois 9, with New Deal money from the Civil Works Administration finally overcoming local resistance to a municipal airfield. It opened as Bloomington Municipal Airport, got a permanent passenger terminal in 1964, and replaced that building with the present terminal on November 5, 2001. Between 1964 and 2001 the airlines working the old terminal tied the city to Peoria, Champaign, Decatur, St. Louis, Detroit and Milwaukee. In 2023 the field recorded 164,672 passenger boardings, which ranked it 198th busiest in the United States, and as of 2021 there were 74 aircraft based here.

As art, the layout is left to read plainly. Runway designators, lengths and widths follow the published figures, while taxiways, apron edges and the terminal and hangar blocks along the north side are reduced to flat geometry over the ground tone you choose. The field covers 1,968 acres, and at that scale the built-up ground gathers into one corner of the frame and the pavement does everything else. This is original wall art composed from published airport information and available field depictions rather than a navigation document, printed to order at a size that reads across a room and still holds up close.

Bloomington/Normal (BMI) print, common questions

How many runways does Central Illinois Regional Airport have?

Two. Runway 2/20 is 8,000 by 150 feet and runway 11/29 is 6,525 by 150 feet. On the print they cross high on the long runway, closer to its north end than its middle.

What is the longest runway at BMI, and how high is the field?

The longest is 2/20 at 8,000 feet. Field elevation is 871 feet above sea level, and that figure is set in the margin of the print.

What does BMI stand for and where is the airport?

BMI is the IATA code for Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal, a public airport in McLean County, Illinois, three miles east of Bloomington and southeast of Normal, at roughly 40.48 north, 88.92 west.

Is the diagram accurate to the real airport?

Runway designators, lengths, widths and the angle between the two runways come from published airport information for the field. It is original wall art, not a chart: fine details may be simplified or omitted, including minor taxiway markings, signage and small structures, and it is not for navigation.

What sizes are available, and does this work as a gift?

Each print is made to order in several sizes and finishes, on the ground tone you pick at checkout. It lands well with people who learned to fly at Bloomington-Normal, work on the field, or pass through the terminal often enough to know which runway they land on.